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The standard is maintained by the METS Board in collaboration with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/https://www.loc.gov/marc/ndmso.html">Network Development and MARC Standards Office</a> of the Library of Congress, and started as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.</p> <table width="740" border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="background-color:#CCFFCC" width="32%" valign="top"><br/> <em>TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION</em> <ul> <li><strong><a href="mets-schemadocs.html"><acronym title="The METS schema was recently approved by the METS Board, consisting of members from six countries on five continents and is also a good test to see how much information can be placed in one field to test the capabilities of a TEST METS home page">METS Schema & Documentation</acronym></a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-extenders.html">METS External Schemas</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-examples.html">METS Example Documents</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-profiles.html">METS Profiles</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-registry.html">METS Implementation Registry</a></strong></li> <br/> </ul> <em>COMMUNITY AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES</em> <ul> <li><strong><a href="mets-present.html">METS Presentations</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="news100306.html">METS Suggested Reading List</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-tools.html">METS Tools & METS Compatible Software</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-events.html">METS Events</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-board.html">METS Editorial Board</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="mets-list-enter.html">Join METS Listserv</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A0=METS">METS Listserv Archive</a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/https://github.com/mets/METS-board/wiki"><acronym title="Interactive blog of informative METS information">METS Wiki - Editorial board meeting minutes, open issues, and more.</acronym></a></strong></li> <br/> <li><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/https://github.com/mets"><acronym title="Schemas and Documentation">METS on Github - repositories for the METS schema and associated tools</acronym></a></strong></li> </ul></td> <td width="68%" valign="top"><div align="center" class="background-gray"><strong>METS NEWS </strong></div>  <p><strong>Latest METS Editorial Board Meeting Minutes:</strong> The minutes are now available from the 2015-12-03 Board meeting. <br/> -- <a href="mets-boardnotes.html">See Minutes </a></p> <p><strong>New METS Schema Revision Available:</strong> The METS Editorial Board has a new revision to the METS 1 XML Schema, bringing the revision number to 1.11<br/> -- <a href="news070715.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>New Monograph METS Profile:</strong> The Spanish Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage has registered a new <a href="profiles/00000044.xml">profile</a> aimed at the creation of a METS service to represent, preserve, and ingest digital objects that are archived and available to the public at the Virtual Library Heritage Bibligráfico of the Ministry of Education. </p> <p><strong>New Digital Object and Metadata METS Profile:</strong> The National Digital Library of the Czech Republic has registered a new METS <a href="profiles/00000043.xml">profile</a> for monographs, used for determination of rules of description for digitized documents (these are transferred to validation and archiving in the Long Term Preservation System). These records are supplied by external institutions with intention to store in the repository of National Digital Library of the Czech Republic. </p> <p><strong>New Version of Rosetta METS Profile:</strong> Ex Libris has registered a new version of their <a href="profiles/00000042.xml">Rosetta METS Profile</a>. This version supersedes the previous version. This profile describes a Rosetta Intellectual Entity (IE), stored in the permanent repository as an Archival Information Package (AIP). </p> <p><strong>METS Presentations Available:</strong> Documents from the "METS Now, and Then... Discussions of Current and Future Data Models" workshop at Digital Libraries 2014 are now available.<br/> -- <a href="news113014.html">See Presentations </a></p> <p><strong>New METS/ALTO Viewer:</strong> The Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg has created a viewer for METS files with OCR files in the ALTO format. Its main use is for digitized newspapers and postcards but can be adapted to other METS profiles as well. It can be seen in action at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu/">http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu</a>. <br/> </p> <p><strong>New METS Schema Version 1.10 Available: </strong>This and all future METS revisions are being released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain license. This revision adds the International Council of Museums’ LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) to the MDTYPE enumeration. LIDO supports descriptive information about all kinds of museum objects. In addition, the flexibility of the METS schema has been improved by allowing arbitrary, locally-defined attributes to be added to many of the METS elements.  Details can be found in the schema comments and will be outlined in forthcoming documentation.<br/> -- <a href="news013114.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>Matterhorn METS Profile:</strong> The Matterhorn METS Profile, developed in cooperation with Docuteam and the Archives de l'Etat du Valais in Switzerland, is now registered. <br/> -- <a href="news112912.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>Two New METS Tools Available:</strong> LIMB and YooLib have been added to the METS Tools page. <br/> -- <a href="mets-tools.html">See METS Tools </a></p> <p><strong>New METS Presentation Available:</strong> An up to date overview presentation on METS has been added thanks to Karin Bredenberg of the Riksarkivet/Swedish National Archives. Check out this presentation and others on the METS Presentation page.<br/> -- <a href="mets-present.html#overviews">See METS Overview </a></p> <p><strong>New METS Community Blog:</strong> There's a new METS Community Blog where anyone can submit METS related articles, and where the latest news on METS will be posted. <br/> -- <a href="news120110.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>Draft METS White Paper Now Available:</strong> The METS Editorial Board has released a draft METS White Paper, which is available for comment.<br/> -- <a href="news102510.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>METS Profile Schema 2.0 Released:</strong> The METS Editorial Board has released a new major version of the METS Profile XML Schema.<br/> -- <a href="news041610.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>Revised METS Primer Now Available:</strong> A revised version of the METS Primer and Reference Manual is now available from the METS Schema and Documentation page on the METS website. This version of the Primer corrects numerous errors discovered in the original version published in 2007.<br/> -- <a href="news041510.html">See Announcement </a></p> <p><strong>METS Suggested Reading List:</strong> A brief list of helpful METS background readings has been compiled and is now available.<br/> -- <a href="news100306.html">See List</a></p> <br/> -- <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-news.html">More METS News</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="bottom">  <table width="760" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td height="35" colspan="2">  <a href="#top"><img src="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/up-button.gif" alt="Top of Page" width="24" height="24" border="0"></a> <a href="#top">Top of Page</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-green.gif" alt="" width="400" height="1"></td> <td> <img src="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-green.gif" alt="" width="360" height="1"></td> </tr>  <tr> <td background="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-gray.gif" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <p>  <span class="selected">Home</span></p> </td> <td align="right" background="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-gray.gif" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td><img src="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-green.gif" alt="" width="400" height="1"></td> <td><img src="/web/20201020080726im_/http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/images/spacer-green.gif" alt="" width="360" height="1"></td> </tr>  <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="760" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td width="37%" height="40" valign="bottom">  <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/" class="white">The Library of Congress</a> <span class="white-text">>></span> <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/standards/">Standards</a><br> <span class="white-text">  September 20, 2020 </span></td> <td width="38%" align="center" height="40" valign="bottom"><p><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html">Legal</a> | <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/global/disclaim.html">External Link Disclaimer</a></p></td> <td width="25%" height="40" align="right" valign="bottom"><p><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20201020080726/http://www.loc.gov/help/help-desk.html" class="white">Contact Us</a> </p></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </div> <br> <script>if(window['_satellite']){_satellite.pageBottom();}</script> </body> </html>

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